NCAA Tournament March Madness

#42 SMU

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Projected seed: 6

SMU's résumé is anchored by a road victory at Mississippi State and a statement nonconference win over Butler, which show it can beat power-conference opposition, but the heavy defeat at Vanderbilt highlights a vulnerability away from home that tempers those positives. High-scoring blowouts of lesser opponents bulk up the record but carry limited weight, so upcoming neutral matchups with Texas A&M and LSU and a home date with North Carolina are must-win chances to change the narrative. The ACC grind with trips to Clemson, Duke and Louisville and west-coast tests at California and Stanford provides repeated opportunities to add road or neutral victories and erase the Vanderbilt blemish, and consistent results in those spots are exactly what turns a promising résumé into a comfortably secure one.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3Tarleton St197W96-76
11/6TAM C. Christi248W69-58
11/11Murray St114W102-91
11/15Butler41W87-85
11/18Ark Pine Bluff357W106-60
11/21Arkansas St151W100-69
11/24Radford274W89-72
11/28@Mississippi St78W87-81
12/3@Vanderbilt6L88-69
12/7(N)Texas A&M4551%
12/13(N)LSU2540%
12/21Cent Arkansas25096%
12/28CS Fullerton28797%
1/3North Carolina2651%
1/7@Clemson2129%
1/10@Duke412%
1/14Virginia Tech7272%
1/17Virginia2351%
1/20@Wake Forest5444%
1/24Florida St9380%
1/31@Louisville1420%
2/3NC State3456%
2/7@Pittsburgh9461%
2/10Notre Dame6368%
2/14@Syracuse6547%
2/17Louisville1439%
2/21Boston College12486%
2/25@California7049%
2/28@Stanford8055%
3/4Miami FL3857%
3/7@Florida St9360%